To the Pascal Community:
A huge THANKS to all of you who responded to my many recent questions.
The final decision is now made that the AngelBase(TM) kernel will be coded (by me) in Free Pascal (FPC), rather than by someone else in C (I hate C). Once we have AngelBase System 1 working (based upon a small amount of Pascal code, plus some mysterious DNA-like data), we will then use System 1 (and a tiny bit more Pascal) to implement (in System 2) the first AngelLanguage(TM) compiler, and then AngelBase itself (System 3 and up).
I stopped coding in Turbo Pascal back in 1991 when I began the long journey of creating AngelBase. I had no idea until a few days ago about what you all had been doing in the meantime. I cannot possibly express how amazed and grateful I am to see that the beautiful legacy of Turbo Pascal has so recently come to life in a way that now overcomes all the reasons I was forced to abandon TP so many years ago. (One unexected delight is the ansistrings....I had no experience with Delphi other than hearing Philippe Kahn tell me about it when I met him in 1995.)
After all these years of AngelBase theory, patents, expert endorsements and piles of preliminary code (largly in AngelLanguage), but no operational system, AngelBase (System 1) is FINALLY going to come to life in the next few weeks. I expect to have pretty good AngelBase running in 6-9 months (at System 5 or so), and a product to shake the world in Winter or Spring 2004.
In deep gratitude to all of you who have made FPC a reality,
Mark Emerson